Favorite Books Bracketing... to find your Favorite Book of the Year!

 They bracket all sorts of sports. Why not the sport of book reading? 

Have you bracketed your book reading? I had never and just saw in one of my FB reading groups and found out that this was a thing! I'm jumping right on board because I think it's a fun way to find the best book you've read all year. You pick one book for each month to pit against each other. For example... the first quarter of the year you have a favorite book for January, February and March. Which two books did you like best? Those two books you keep as favorites get put in the next brackets. Then you have to decide which of those two books is your favorite... That is the winner for that quarter of the year! You do this for each 3 month period. Then you choose between those winners to get down to 2 choices. From those 2 choices you pick which one you enjoyed more AND THAT IS YOUR FAVORITE book of the year! Here's an example of how the first quarter would look...

You can download my bracket or create one for yourself (I did mine in Canva) or google book reading brackets and you can find a few out there to download that way. These little rectangles are made this way so you can download your book covers and then using a program like Canva you can put your book covers right over the square. Or you can just put the names of your books in the rectangles and keep track that way. Just another fun bookish thing to do! Happy reading... Suzanne

7 Days of Favorite Books... Day 6

This is an amazing story. So vivid, so beautifully written and one of my all time favorite reads! Read my review this week! Until then, just know I thought it was a "breathtaking, sweeping novel" and loved every minute I spent with these characters!

7 Days of Favorite books... Day 5

All I can say is, READ this! Beautiful story, wonderfully written, it touched my heart and everyone 's heart that I've shared this with!

7 Days of Favorite Books... Day 4

Cheryl Strayed definitely held my attention and had me turning those pages to keep reading. One of my favorite books, nonfiction, memoir and definitely better than the movie, which only touched on all the emotional, thought provoking writing.

7 Days of Favorite Books... Day 3

When thinking about this book, I can still feel that tingle I got when I read it! I still love this book! I received a copy of it before publication, here's my review from 8 years ago...

https://chickwithbooks.blogspot.com/2010/07/dracula-in-love-by-karen-essex-review.html

7 Days of Favorite Books... Day 2...

This is one of my all time favorite books... AND, it was the first book I ever blogged about on Chick with Books! February 18th, 2009 was the start of Chick with Books, here's the first post...

    http://chickwithbooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/welcome-to-my-blog-about-books-and.html

Favorite Books...

We all have favorite books. As book bloggers we have A LOT of favorite books. When you sit down and think about all the books you've read, what books pop up time and time again? On Facebook, my Aunt Sharon, nominated me to share a favorite book a day for seven days. No reviews, no reasons, just post the cover and that's it. So, I thought I would share those 7 days worth of books here. Now I have more than 7 favorite books, I probably could do a whole months worth of great books, but let's see about the first 7... My first book...